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“A Night Like This” by The Cure
From the album The Head on the Door (1985)
“A Night Like This” by The Cure appears on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1985 and 2007. It was first released in 1985 on the album The Head on the Door. Its best result is #6 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1985. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #46 alternative song of 1985, #3,146 alternative song of all time and #131 of the '80s.
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"A Night Like This" comes from The Cure's The Head on the Door, released in August 1985, and it's Robert Smith doing what he does best: writing, singing and playing guitar on a song that aches like a fresh bruise. Simon Gallup's bass throbs underneath, Boris Williams keeps the drums and percussion taut, and Porl Thompson and Lol Tolhurst wash keyboards over the top, before Ron Howe's saxophone cuts through the gloom like a streetlight in the rain. Smith produced it with David M. Allen and Howard Gray, with Allen also engineering, and they keep the sound big and glossy without sanding off an ounce of the melancholy.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1985 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 107 | WLIR / WDRE | WLIR Top 200 Songs of the 1980s | 200 |
| 1988 | 81 | WLIR / WDRE | WLIR Top 200 Songs of All-Time (1988) | 200 |
| 1989 | 105 | 91X | 91X Top 191 Songs of the 1980s (1989) | 191 |
| 1989 | 27 | WFNX | WFNX Top 101 Songs of the Decade (December 1989) | 101 |
| 1991 | 99 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1991) | 302 |
| 1999 | 917 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 2002 | 751 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2007 | 547 | WTMD | WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time | 897 |
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